FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
23 JUNE 2025
Media Advisory
Press conference: The Road to Belem: Climate Justice Not Delay
When: 23rd June, 3:30pm Bonn time
Where: Bonn Climate Talks, Nairobi Room 4, Main Building, Entrance Level
This press conference brings together powerful voices from across the climate justice movement to hold the COP Presidency accountable to the promises of ambition, equity, and implementation in the COP30 agenda.
We are here today, at the Bonn climate talks, to respond to the COP Presidency’s plenary address and demand a clear pathway to a renewable energy future driven by people power, not fossil fuel interests. Speakers will highlight the need for Indigenous and traditional leaders to have a seat at the table alongside Heads of State, the call for higher ambition and full delivery on fossil fuel phase-out commitments, and for new, additional public finance to meet the climate debt owed to the Global South by the Global North.
Livestream: Link
Speakers:
- Claudio Angelo, Head of International Policy, Observatório de Clima
Claudio will address Brazilian civil society’s demands for COP30 to deliver a concrete outcome that drives forward the energy transition and enforces the Global Stocktake. The COP30 Presidency must take clear political responsibility to ensure binding action, especially to implement the Dubai text.
- Cacique (chief) Ninawá Inu Huni Kui
Ninawá will call for indigenous people and traditional communities to have a seat at the table during the Leaders’ Segment as well as across the negotiation rooms at COP30.
- Dr. Sindra Sharma, International Policy Lead, Pacific Islands Climate Action Network
Sindra will speak from the Pacific perspective, arguing the action agenda won’t be sufficient to address Pacific needs alone, and that the COP Presidency must push for higher ambition, implementation of fossil fuel phaseout commitments, and new and additional public finance as a critical debt from the Global North to South that must be paid.
- Alia Kajee, Global Campaign Project Manager, 350.org
Alia will speak about holding the Presidency accountable on tripling renewable energy, phasing out fossil fuels, and the need for formal Indigenous and traditional leadership in the lead up to and during COP30.
Moderated by Fanny Petitbon, France Team Lead, 350.org
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Note to Editors
Earlier this year in Brasília, more than 200 activists from 70 nations including Indigenous leaders, workers, and youth stood united, all demanding climate justice. They delivered a letter to the COP30 President-designate André Aranha Corrêa do Lago demanding the delivery of renewable energy, a fossil fuel phase out, and Indigenous and traditional communities participation in the negotiations.
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